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ZOA Applauds Members of U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for Demanding Answers to U.S. Education Department’s Troubling Report on Campus Anti-Semitism

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) applauds members of the United States Senate’s Committee on the Judiciary for their powerful and incisive letter to Secretary Margaret Spellings of the U.S. Department of Education, demanding answers to the Education Department’s troubling report on campus anti-Semitism.  In the letter, dated February 27, 2008, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), […]

Bush Administration Supports Compensation for Victims of Terror Despite Expressing Concern Terror Lawsuits Could Bankrupt PA

The Bush Administration has told a federal judge presiding over a lawsuit who awarded damages of $174 million Leslie Knox, a 46-year-old mother of six children and widow of Aharon Ellis, a U.S. citizen who was killed in 2002 while singing at a bar mitzvah in Hadera, Israel, that is it is concerned that lawsuits […]

ZOA Opposes Bush Administration Pressuring Israel to End Prematurely Actions Against Gaza Terror Groups

U.S. Would Never Sit Still For Such Rocket Attacks   The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has written to President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, opposing the Bush Administration for pressuring Israel to desist from defending its territory and the lives of its citizens by launching a long-overdue military offensive, Operation […]

Palestinian PM Fayyad Refuses To Answer Question About PA’s Honoring Terrorist Habash & PA/Fatah Poster Erasing Israel

Last week in a speech to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Salaam Fayyad, pointedly avoided answering a direct question from ZOA National President Morton A. Klein as to why the supposedly moderate and peace-loving PA had issued a poster in honor of the […]

Former PM Netanyahu Warns Against Any Concessions To Abbas

Netanyahu: We must allownatural growth of settlements Former Israeli Prime Minister and current Likud Chairman and Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu has warned the Israeli government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert against making any further concessions to Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas. In an address earlier this week to the Conference of Presidents of Major […]

Independent Task Force Confirms ZOA’s Claims Of Anti-Semitism At UC Irvine And Condemns UC Irvine’s Response

Task Force Faults ADL, Hillel, AJ CommitteeAnd The Jewish Federation ForFailing To Hold UC Irvine Accountable A Task Force of community leaders, formed approximately one year ago to investigate allegations of anti-Semitism at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), issued a 34-page report this month. (To read the report, click here.) The report confirmed the […]

Former PM Netanyahu: Olmert Must Demand Abbas Rescind Fatah Constitution Calling For Israel’s Destruction

In an address this week in Jerusalem to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, former Prime Minister and current Likud Chairman and Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu called upon Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to demand of Palestinian Authority (PA) president and Fatah co-founder Mahmoud Abbas that Fatah rescind the Fatah Constitution, which […]

ZOA Praises President Bush For Tightening Sanctions On Syria

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised President George W. Bush for signing a new Executive Order expanding sanctions upon Syria and its Baathist regime, headed by President Bashar al-Assad, on account of its continuing support for terrorism and its destabilizing role upon Lebanon. According to the announcement by the Presidential spokesman, “This order […]

ZOA Opposes Bush Administration Considering Supporting PA’s Quest To Avoid Millions In Damages To American Victims Of Palestinian Terrorism

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) opposes the Bush Administration even considering aiding Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) in its efforts to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in judgments won by American victims of Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel. Palestinian officials and defense lawyers involved in the cases have said that the U.S. […]